COMET GAIN - HOWL OF THE LONELY CROWD (LP)

Comet Gain Howl Of The Lonely Crowd on LP

Howl of the Lonely Crowd represents the fruition of the affection with which Comet Gain are held: recorded and produced by British musical icon Edwyn Collins, and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs, further production work was undertaken by Brian O’Shaughnessy (My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream) and Alasdair Maclean of The Clientele, who also contributed guitar. With added input from Matthew Sawyer (The Ghosts), Helen King (Shrag), and a blast of Terry Edwards’ (Spiritualized, Gallon Drunk, The Tindersticks) legendary trumpet on the rousing mod anthem “The Weekend Dreams,” the record captures a band fully in their stride and able to realize their full potential.

Suffused with longing, love, and defiance, Howl of the Lonely Crowd documents and dissects this English melancholy with a rare self-assurance.  The songwriting here is of the kind that only Comet Gain can really pull off, perfectly pitched evocative pop, redolent of all that is rich, gorgeous, and uncompromising about the meeting between punk and '60s soul, and imbued with a particular streak of violence and urgency which the band have now refined into a complete and elegant aesthetic.

Howl of the Lonely Crowd is the soundtrack to lives spent dedicated to seeking out the outposts of pop culture, an immersion that asks no reward beyond the music itself. On this record, with the patronage of their esteemed friends, acolytes and collaborators, we find one of the most treasured and exhilarating British bands around in full realization of their creative capacities.

Comet Gain Howl Of The Lonely Crowd Track Listing:

1.  Clang Of The Concrete Swans
2.  The Weekend Dreams
3.  An Arcade From The Warm Rain That Falls
4.  She Had Daydreams
5.  Yoona Baines
6.  Working Circle Explosive!
7.  Herbert Huncke Prt 2
8.  After Midnite, After It's All Gone Wrong
9.  A Memorial For Nobody I Know
10. Ballad Of Frankie Machine
11. Some Of Us Don't Want To Be Saved
12. Thee Ecstatic Library
13. In A Lonely Place